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New Mutants is an upcoming movie based on the superhero mutant team of the same name, and will be the eleventh installment in the X-Men film series. It is slated to release on April 13, 2018.

Synopsis

“Held in a secret facility against their will, five new mutants have to battle the dangers of their powers, as well as the sins of their past. They aren’t out to save the world — they’re just trying to save themselves.”

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik[1]

Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane[2]

Henry Zaga as Sunspot[3]

Blu Hunt as Mirage[4]

Charlie Heaton as Cannonball[5]

Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes[6]

Unknown actor as Demon Bear[7]

Unknown actor as Warlock

Unknown actor as Lockheed[7]

Production

At a Fox Blu-Ray press event in Beverly Hills in September 2009, Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed that there are plans for a film involving the New Mutants. However she stressed that it has yet to be pitched to the studio.

In May 2015, Deadline reports that Josh Boone was hired to direct and co-write, alongside Knate Gwaltney, a film adaptation of The New Mutants comic-book series. [8] Acting as a spin-off to the X-Men film series, the film will be written by Boone and Gwaltney, while Donner and Kinberg are attached to produce.[9]

In August 2015, Boone shared an image of the script which he was writing along with Gwaltney and was “not done yet.”[10]

In October 2015, Boone had finished the script for the film with Knate Gwaltney, and tweeted that the first draft for the script is complete.[11][12] Kinberg has stated that the film will be a Young Adult movie.[13]

In August 2016, it was reported that Scott Neustadter and[Michael H. Weber would write the script with the films line up to include Danielle Moonstar, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Cannonball, Magik, and Warlock.[14]

In November 2016, Coming Soon.net reports that Demon Bear would be the main antagonist in the film, the site also reveal that 20th Century Fox is currently targeting a Spring 2018 release date, the film’s tone is describing as a “Stephen King meets John Hughes-style horror movie” and that Nat Wolff is being eyed for the role of Cannonball.[7] Boone announced, on his Instagram page, that Pre-Production has began.[15][16]

In March 2017, following the release of Logan, Lana Condor, who played the mutant Jubilee in the film, shared a piece of fanart of her character on her Instagram account. In it, she proclaimed that she misses playing the character, and wants to “hang again soon”. While the caption is a relatively vague indication that Condor wants to reprise her role in Teen Spirit, it will certainly come as a welcomed piece of news for fans of Jubilee.[17]

In May 2017, it was reported that James McAvoy would not be reprising his role Professor X for the film.[18][19][20] Even though his three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox was completed with the release of X-Men: Apocalypse, it has been expected that the studio will re-sign McAvoy so that he continue to portray Charles Xavier/Professor X — one of the world’s most powerful mutant telepaths — in New Mutants and Dark Phoenix. Just last year, producer Simon Kinberg basically confirmed McAvoy’s involvement. “Right now, as the movie exists, Professor X would be a part of a New Mutants movie,” he told Collider.[21]

In early July 2017, ahead of the film’s spring 2018 release, the cast of New Mutants has arrived for filming in Boston. Stars Henry Zaga, Maisie Williams, and Charlie Heaton have been spotted in the Massachusetts capital with filming expected to start any day.[22]

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The Pact is an upcoming American comedy film directed by Kay Cannon and written by Eben Russell, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Brian Kehoe, and Jim Kehoe. The film stars Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, John Cena, Haley Lu Richardson, Kathryn Newton, Graham Phillips, June Diane Raphael, Hannibal Buress, and Sarayu Blue. The film is scheduled to be released on April 20, 2018 by Universal Pictures.

Plot

Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginities on prom night.[2]

Cast

Leslie Mann

Ike Barinholtz

John Cena

Haley Lu Richardson

Kathryn Newton

Gideon Adlon

Geraldine Viswanathan

Graham Phillips

Miles Robbins

Jimmy Bellinger

June Diane Raphael

Hannibal Buress

Sarayu Blue

Production

On November 13, 2015, it was announced that screenwriter Kay Cannon had signed on to make her directorial debut with the comedy film The Pact. Eben Russell, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Brian Kehoe, and Jim Kehoe will write the script. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Chris Fenton will produce.[3] In November 2016, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena joined the film as three parents who try to stop their daughters from losing their virginities on prom night.[2] In January 2017, it was reported that Universal Pictures had bought the film’s distribution rights.[4] On March 2, 2017, Haley Lu Richardson was cast in the film to play Mann’s daughter in the film.[5] Later in April 2017, more cast was added including Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Geraldine Viswanathan, Graham Phillips, Miles Robbins, and Jimmy Bellinger.[6][7] June Diane Raphael, Hannibal Buress, and Sarayu Rao also joined the film in May 2017.[8]

Principal photography on the film began on May 2, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia.[8][9]

Release

The Pact is scheduled to be released on April 6, 2018, by Universal Pictures.

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Magic Camp is an upcoming American comedy family film produced by Team Todd and Gunn Films and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Mark Waters and written by Steve Martin, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand. The film stars Adam DeVine, Jeffrey Tambor, Gillian Jacobs, Nathaniel McIntyre, J.J. Totah and Cole Sand. The film is scheduled to be released on April 6, 2018.

Synopsis

Andy, who, at the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, returns to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career. Instead, he finds inspiration in his ragtag bunch of rookie magicians.

Cast

Adam DeVine as Andy, a counselor to the magic camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career.

Jeffrey Tambor as Roy Preston, the mentor and owner of the magic camp.

Gillian Jacobs as Christina Darkwood, Andy’s former partner

Nathaniel Logan McIntyre as Theo, a 12-year-old boy who attends the Magic Camp as he copes with his father’s death.

Cole Sand as Nathan, the best friend of Theo

J.J. Totah as Judd

Aldis Hodge as Devin

Rochelle Aytes as Zoe

Desmond Chiam as Xerxes

Isabella Cramp as Ruth

Izabella Alvarez as Vera

Hayden Crawford as Vic

Bianca Grava as Janelle

Lonnie Chavis as Cameron

Production

On November 2, 2016, it was announced that Walt Disney Pictures had cast Adam DeVine and Jeffrey Tambor to star in the family comedy film Magic Camp, which would be directed by Mark Waters from a latest script by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, and a previous draft by Steve Martin.[1] DeVine would play a counselor to the magic camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career, while Tambor will play Roy Preston, the mentor and owner of the magic camp. Suzanne Todd would produce the film.[1] On November 9, 2016, Gillian Jacobs was cast in the film as Devine’s character’s former partner.[2] J.J Totah was cast as Judd. On November 21, Disney added Cole Sand to play Nathan, the best friend of Theo, a 12-year-old boy who attends the Magic Camp as he copes with his father’s death.[3]

Principal photography on the film began in December, 2016 in and around Los Angeles.[4]

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Ready Player One is an upcoming American science-fiction adventure film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on Cline’s novel of the same name. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, and T. J. Miller. The film is scheduled to be released on March 30, 2018.

Premise

In the dystopian near-future, much of Earth’s population centers have become slum-like cities; to escape their desolation, people engage in the virtual reality world of the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), where they can engage in numerous activities for work, education, and entertainment.

Wade Owen Watts is a teenager from Columbus, Ohio who frequents the OASIS and attempts to win “Anorak’s Game”, a game created by the recently-deceased creator of the OASIS, James Halliday, in search of its Easter Egg. The winner is to be granted full ownership of the OASIS and Halliday’s $240 billion fortune. While Wade works with several friends from the OASIS to discover Anorak’s treasure, the corporate giant Innovative Online Industries (IOI) employs a number of players to try to discover the treasure first and seize control of OASIS for themselves.

Cultural references

As with the book, the film has numerous homages to the popular culture of the 1980s. Among licensed characters and elements used in the film include The Iron Giant, the DeLorean time machinefrom Back to the Future, outfitted with KITT from Knight Rider, the DC Comics universe, The Lord of the Rings, Freddy Kruger, Duke Nukem, the possessed car from Christine, the van from The A-Team, the modified Ford Falcon used in Mad Max, the monster truck Bigfoot, and Kaneda’s motorcycle from Akira.[3][4] Spielberg recognized that his past films were a significant part of the 1980s popular culture, and to avoid being accused of “vanity”, he opted to avoid using many references to his own films.[5]

Cast

Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts / Parzival[6]

Olivia Cooke as Samantha Evelyn Cook / Art3mis[7]

Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento[8]

Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday / Anorak[9]

Simon Pegg as Ogden Morrow[10]

T. J. Miller as i-R0k[11]

Lena Waithe as Aech[12]

Hannah John-Kamen[13]

Win Morisaki as Daito[14]

Philip Zhao as Shoto[15]

Ralph Ineson[16] as Rick

Letitia Wright as Reb

Production

On June 18, 2010, it was announced that Warner Bros. and De Line Pictures had won the auction from Paramount, Fox, and Temple Hill Entertainment of the film rights to the sci-fi novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, which was not yet published.[17] Cline was set to write the script for the film, which Donald De Line and Dan Farah would produce.[17] Eric Eason rewrote Cline’s script,[18] and Zak Penn was hired to rewrite the previous drafts by Cline and Eason. Village Roadshow Pictures came aboard to co-finance and co-produce the film with WB.[19] Steven Spielberg signed on to direct and produce the film, which Kristie Macosko Krieger would also produce along with Line and Farah.[20]

Casting

Three actresses were top-runners for the role of Art3mis: Elle Fanning, Olivia Cooke, and Lola Kirke;[21] In September 2015, Cooke was announced as the female lead role.[7] Ben Mendelsohn was cast in the film to play the villainous role as an executive for an OASIS-based corporation.[8] Tye Sheridan was confirmed for the lead role of Wade at the end of February 2016.[6] In mid-March 2016, Simon Pegg entered final talks to join the cast in the role of Ogden Morrow, co-creator of the OASIS.[10] Mark Rylance joined the cast as James Halliday, the creator of OASIS.[9] In June 2016, T. J. Miller was cast in the film to play a bounty hunter,[11] Hannah John-Kamen was cast for an unspecified supporting role,[13] and Japanese singer-actor Win Morisaki was cast as Toshiro Yoshiaki, also known as Daito.[14]

Filming

Production was slated to begin in July 2016.[22] Screenwriter Zak Penn tweeted on July 1, 2016, that the first week of filming was completed.[23] In August and September 2016, filming took place in Birmingham, England which included Livery Street in the Jewellery Quarter area which also utilized the backpackers hostel Hatters for internal filming, other locations in the city included the formal industry area of Digbeth with the setting in grungy dystopian Ohio.[24][25]

Music

On June 9, 2016, Variety stated that Spielberg’s regular collaborator John Williams was planning to compose the film’s score.[26] However in July 2017, it was reported that Williams had left the project to work on Spielberg’s The Papers instead, with Alan Silvestri hired to take over scoring duties for Ready Player One.[1]

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Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes is an upcoming British-American 3D computer-animated fantasy romantic comedy mystery film that is being directed by John Stevenson.[1] The film will be the sequel to 2011’s Gnomeo & Juliet, and stars the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Johnny Depp. The film is being produced by Rocket Pictures, Paramount Animation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,[3] with the animation service provided by Paris-based Mikros Image.[3] It will be the first film from Paramount Pictures to be entirely animated since 2011’s Rango, and the first film from Paramount Animation to be entirely animated. The film is scheduled to be released on March 23, 2018, by Paramount Pictures.[2]

Synopsis

Gnomeo & Juliet recruit detective Sherlock Gnomes to help investigate the mysterious disappearance of the other garden gnomes.[4]

Production

In March 2012, it was reported that the film is in development at Rocket Pictures. Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil, two of the nine writers on the first film, are writing the script for the film. Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing the film, and Elton John, an exec producer, is again composing new songs for the film. The film will feature Sherlock Gnomes, “the greatest ornamental detective” hired by the characters from the first film, who will try to solve the mystery of disappearing gnomes.[4] In September 2012, it was reported that John Stevenson, the co-director of Kung Fu Panda, has been set to direct the film.[6] In November 2015, it was announced that Johnny Depp would voice Sherlock Gnomes and that the film would be released on January 12, 2018.[7] Paramount Animation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are producing the film, with McAvoy and Blunt reprising their roles.[8] In May 2017, the film was pushed back two months to March 23, 2018.[2]